CHALLEGE: Man Booker Challenge

Dewey must believe in that old adage 'good things occur in threes' because she is hosting three challenges for next year. Yes, I said three. I'm most interested in the Man Booker Challenge, but she is also hosting a Graphic Novels Challenge and The Printz Award Challenge, for young adult novels. The Printz one will stay on my radar because I signed up for Joy's Young Adult Challenge, so I'll have to look into that a bit more. The Man Booker Challenge is to read 6 books that were winners or short listed for the Man Booker Award.

I already planned to read the following Booker Winners for the Booker Challenge and Bookers are one of my categories for the 888 challenge:

• Amsterdam - McEwan
• The Remains of the Day - Ishiguru
• The Life and Times of Michael K - Coetzee
• Disgrace - Coetzee
• The True History of the Kelly Gang
• The English Patient
• Last Orders - Graham Swift
• The Gathering - Anne Enright
• Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner

Maybe I'll just read 6 shortlisted books. Books from the short list that intrigue me include:

• The Night Watch - Sarah Waters (chunkster)
• Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (1% well read)
• Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood (end of the world)
• Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry (1% well read)
• Atonement - Ian McEwan (book awards)
• In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar (notable)
• Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones (Orbis Terrarum)
  

I can easily read 6 from this list of books.

challenge wrap up here